GPX/FIT file comparison

Interesting/annoying/sad!

Some success. 

So Factory Reset watch. Plugged in and Express (yes its got he better of me and im back messing!) and a tiny 7kb DB update appeared. 

Have now managed to get the Topo Light V9 to install. its on the watch. 

And in other news Basecamp can see everything again. Not sure what's gone wrong but hopefully all is now well. 

Going to hold off with the GBOpen on the watch for now whilst I set everything back up. 

Silly question time. 

On the watch. if I want to use the Topo Light map do I need to 'uncheck' all the other maps?

AT least you're having a better day than me now!

Congrats!

We shall see!

And yes. Big Sur here. I shall put a ticket in also. 

There seems to be in each map a "drawing order" so that if you select x and y, x appears on top of y.

On mine anyway

Both TL and GBOpen appear on TOP of Topo active and don't show TopoActive

With both on, GBOpen seems to be displayed

 it seems like GBOpen is higher priority than TL, so if you have both on GBopen is the one that displays.

And it looks like to me anyway (by using Round Trip courses) having both on displays GBOpen as main, but uses TL's routing ability :)

Yes just confirmed

Stick both maps on (even Topo Active if feeling lucky)

Displays GB Open as the nap, but uses TL etc for routing data so you can create a round trip course on the watch

Just have GB Open on (which we know isn't routable) and you can't create a course...

Going to keep both on from now on! Result!!

Think I'm lost for definite now!

On the watch do you have all maps green or just GBOpen and Topo Light?

Reading on TalkyToaster he states to disable all other maps...

Step 6.

From there it is just a matter of setting the map to use (disabling all others) at both system level and per Activity profile. Same with the Detail level, and the Map Theme should be set to NONE (where applicable). These are documented here.

That’s it, enjoy the map…

You can, but I've found it doesn't seem to matter too much - though I suspect in his case he's doing it because (I Guess) having two maps with routable data means trying to plot routes gets complex if there's two slightly different routing data

If its only one map with routing, then there's only one to choose.

Me, I use slightly different maps for different things

I use GBOpen AND TLv9 green for my running apps and navigate/walk , All of them on for the MAPS activity

In this case, go with what you feel comfortable with. If you really don't want routing at all, just use one. But perhaps over the next couple of activities chop and change and find which one you feel is best for each activity type

It looks like for routing (i.e using the inbuilt route creation of the watch - it can for example, generate xK running routes for you on the watch) it will use the routing data for ANY MAPS that are green in the activity you're using.

So if you have two maps on simultaneously with routing data, i GUESS if the data is slightly different it'll behave weird - hence the recommendation to use just one.

But as GB Open has no routing data, but TL does - it looks like (and I'm going to test this tomorrow I think) switching both on gives you the better map display data of GBOpen AND the routing of TLv( (as GBO doesn't have it)

So it looks like having both gives you, literally, the best of both worlds :)